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Snowden meta-narrative

2014-08-05 21:13:18.367712+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Charlie Stross: The Snowden leaks: a meta-narrative:

... Because that's what the internet of things means: the secret police have installed locks in everything and the criminals are now selling each other skeleton keys.

Related: the FBI got a warrant to discretely install a trojan on the computers of everyone who visited a site.

[ related topics: Privacy Weblogs virus Law Enforcement Net Culture ]

comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):

#Comment Re: made: 2014-08-05 21:31:45.019448+02 by: meuon

Good description. Very good description.

#Comment Re: made: 2014-08-06 13:24:40.864384+02 by: DaveP

That related link is borked, Dan.

#Comment Re: made: 2014-08-06 19:15:55.073089+02 by: Dan Lyke

Whoops. Fixed. Thanks.

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